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Interview With Muhammad Husayn Haykal National Archives - Interview With Muhammad Husayn Haykal - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This film includes an interview with the editor of the El Ahram Haykal about the Arab - Israeli conflict. - DVD Copied by IASL Scanner John Williams. - ARC 642127 / LI 263.208 Muhammad Husayn Haykal (also spelled Haikal or Heikal or Heykal Arabic: محمد حسين هيكل‎‎ Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [muˈħæmmæd ħuˈseːn ˈheːkæl]; August 20, 1888 – December 8, 1956) was an Egyptian writer, journalist, politician and Minister of Education in Egypt. Haykal was born in Kafr Ghannam, Mansoura, Ad Daqahliyah in 1888. He obtained a B.A. in Law in 1909 and a PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1912. While a student in Paris, he composed what is considered the first authentic Egyptian novel, Zaynab. After returning to Egypt, he worked as a lawyer for 10 years, then as a journalist. He was elected as editor-in-chief of Al Siyasa news